No-Beef Climate Solution

Meat production accounts for approximately a fifth of all greenhouse
gas emissions; therefore, India's Environment Minister, Jairam Ramesh,
suggests stop eating beef as solution to reduce greenhouse gases
emission. R. K. Pachauri, the leading Indian climate change scientist
who headed the UN's influential panel on climate change, said "If you
look at the beef cycle today, you first clear forests, which increases
emissions, then you feed cattle all kinds of food grain, which is energy
intensive, and then you kill and refrigerate these animals, and then
they are transported long distances. Then you buy it and refrigerate it.
If you count all the emissions associated with this entire cycle, it is
huge."

Transition to a plant-based diet helps to restore the environment by
reducing not only greenhouse gases emissions, but also air, water and
soil pollution as well as deforestation. It is our sacred responsibility
to take care of God's Creation to the best of our abilities.